Juno News - July 04, 2018


An ＂Islamophobia＂ Industry in Canada

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Andrew Lawton
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2 minutes

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145.54

Word count

406

Sentence count

22

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1

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The federal government has given $23 million to Islamic Relief and the National Council of Canadian Muslims, two Islamic groups in Canada, to fight anti-Muslim hate crimes. Andrew Lawton argues that the money is being used to fuel an Islamophobia industry in Canada.

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00:00:00.000 It seems like just yesterday the federal government was passing M103, the anti-Islamophobia motion that was supposed to make Canada a better place.
00:00:07.360 You know, the one that called for a whole-of-government approach to curbing Islamophobia.
00:00:12.520 Well now, under that M103 plan, $23 million has been given by the federal government to Islamic Relief and the National Council of Canadian Muslims, two Islamic groups here in Canada.
00:00:24.100 The fact that that money is being given for a very unclear purpose reinforces the problem that I was sounding the alarm about and many other people months ago,
00:00:33.720 which is that M103 was creating or bolstering an Islamophobia industry in Canada.
00:00:39.660 People that are profiting off of stoking fears that Canada is a hateful place or an anti-Muslim place.
00:00:46.160 And when you look at the actual hate crimes data published by the federal government, by Statistics Canada, that just isn't the case.
00:00:52.600 One notable study looked at data from 2015, finding that there was a 60% increase year over year of anti-Muslim hate crimes.
00:01:01.560 Now, when you look at it in percentages, it sounds bad, but in actuality, that was 159 incident.
00:01:07.580 Still less than there were incidents of anti-Semitism that same year.
00:01:12.080 Also that year, a 58 or 59% increase in anti-Catholic hate crimes.
00:01:17.540 Where's the motion to condemn Catholicophobia?
00:01:19.840 The fact of the matter is, we're dealing with minuscule numbers here, which is why percentages have been used to blow out of proportion how bad the problems really are.
00:01:30.800 Now, this isn't to say that we should ignore hate crimes and bigotry that take place.
00:01:35.600 One is too many, I agree.
00:01:37.420 But we're not going to get to the destination we're trying to by buying our way there. 0.83
00:01:41.980 And certainly not by funding organizations that have been making these asinine claims.
00:01:47.160 The National Council of Canadian Muslims, for example, said that hate crimes in 2015 could be blamed on the federal election, blamed on Stephen Harper.
00:01:56.220 Jerry Butts, the principal advisor to Justin Trudeau, made a very similar claim when that study came out.
00:02:01.640 We have to look at these things in the broader context.
00:02:04.960 But $23 million is not going to get us to peace and harmony.
00:02:08.560 It's just going to get some people rich off of what is really a denigration of how well integrated Canada really is.
00:02:15.200 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lawton.
00:02:17.400 The True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lawton.